Persons Quotes - Page 18

• But it's also true that the person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing. All we know about the future is that it will be different. But perhaps what we fear is that it will be the same. So we must celebrate the changes.

  Deborah Moggach

  Risk, Doe, Different

  "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel". www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself

  Jennifer Worth

  Reflection, Matter, Impossible

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• A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Style, Triumph

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• The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

  Stephen King

  Gone, Realizing, Length

  Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Needs, Way

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• To persons of spirit like ourselves the only happy marriage is that which is based on a firm foundation of almost incessant quarrelling.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Foundation, Happy Marriage, Spirit

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “The Man Upstairs: And Other Stories”, p.158, The Floating Press

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• Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Character, Men

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.23, Penguin

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• You cannot force someone to accept an expression of love. You can only offer it. If it is not accepted, you must respect the other person's decision.

  Gary Chapman

  Love You, Expression, Decision

  Gary D. Chapman (2017). “The 5 Love Languages Singles Edition: The Secret That Will Revolutionize Your Relationships”, p.47, Moody Publishers

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• She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so briefly inside the mayor’s tuxedo pocket. It was over in a flash, a blink, a second. And Macey was quite certain she was the only person in the entire room to have seen it, but that was just as well. At least, Macey had seen enough. And at last, the boy made sense." — Double Crossed by Ally Carter

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Hands, Allies

  Ally Carter (2013). “Double Crossed (Free Story)”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

  Christopher Paolini

  Enlightenment, Eragon

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• What is emotional intimacy? It is that depp sense of being connected to one another. It is feeling loved, respected and appreciated, while at the same time seeking to reciprocate. To feel loved is to have the sense that the other person genuinely cares about your well-being. Respect has to do with feeling that your potential spouse has positive regard for your personhood, intellect, abilities and personality. Appreciation is that inner sense that your partner values your contribution to the relationship.

  Gary Chapman

  Appreciation, Emotional, Personality

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• You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.

  Kim Harrison

  Coffee

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• I'm a firm believer that every person, young or old, has at least one good story to tell.

  David Levithan

  Stories, Young, Firm

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for a short period of time... the habit takes over.

  Zig Ziglar

  Habit, Force, Periods

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.289, Pelican Publishing

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• You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

  Scott Spencer

  Care, Way, Said

  Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Years, People

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• And it’s more. It’s about getting past that question of whats wrong with me, to knowing there’s nothing wrong, that you were born this way. You're a normal person and a beautiful person and you should be proud of who you are. You deserve to live and live with dignity and show people your pride.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Beautiful, Pride, Past

  Julie Anne Peters (2007). “Keeping You a Secret”, p.142, Hachette UK

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• Up until that moment, I'd been at the earliest stage of love, when you feel it will turn you into the better person you want to be. Now, his gentle voice and sage advice took me to a later stage: I felt I needed to pretend to be a better person than I was so he'd keep loving me. This was hard because it made me hate him.

  Melissa Bank

  Hate, Voice, Advice

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• I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost it. I think you cry in movies that aren't even sad because you have a soft heart, though you don't let it show. I think you do things that scare you, and that makes you braver than those adrenaline junkies who bungee-jump off bridges.

  Gayle Forman

  Heart, Thinking, Air

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.56, Penguin

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• According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Religious, Determination, Thinking

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• Life cannot be cut off quickly. One cannot be dead until the things he changed are dead. His effect is the only evidence of his life. While there remains even a plaintive memory, a person cannot be cut off, dead. And he thought, “It’s a long slow process for a human to die. We kill a cow, and it is dead as soon as the meat is eaten, but a man’s life dies as a commotion in a still pool dies, in little waves, spreading and growing back toward stillness.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Cutting, Men

  John Steinbeck (1994). “Novels and Stories, 1932-1937”

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• Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Monsters

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Fire, Trying, Different

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.

  David Lubar

  Lonely, Loneliness, Unique

  David Lubar (2005). “Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Blind, Stealing, Photograph

  Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.99, Anchor

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